After pregnancy, many times couples report that they don’t experience the pleasure that they used to. Can this be helped?

After normal delivery often-vaginal walls become lax and the penovaginal contact reduces. Thus some people do report less pleasure. This can be helped. While doing the episiotomy, the gynecologist should take one more stitch known as husband’s stitch to ensure adequate apposition that helps in increasing the peno-vaginal contact, thus giving more pleasure.

What are the most common causes of lax vagina? How can it be prevented?

This may occur following childbirth. Proper management of labor with perineal support and an adequate and timely episiotomy can best prevent it.

What is the treatment for a lax vagina?

Kegel’s exercises for contracting the perineal muscles by holding the urine and releasing it, 20 such contractions and relaxations three times a day, may help increase the muscle tone. If this does not work, one may go in for vaginal reconstructive surgery.

What s the normal length of the erect penis?

Concern about penile size is as old as the human race. The width, length and erection of the penis vary from male to male, as does the length of the nose, the depth and spacing of the eyes and the width of the forehead. The average sexual length of the vagina is about 15 cm. and only the outer third (5 cm.) has the maximum nerve endings. The inner two-thirds (10 cm.) being virtually insensitive.

If one wants to arouse his partner, he should concentrate on the area where there are maximum nerve endings i.e. the outer lips (Labia Majora) and the outer third i.e. outer 5 cm. of the vagina. Therefore, for female sexual gratification, the size of the erect penis could be anything from 5 cm. plus. However, the size of the penis may be an important factor for women who harbor the myth “a man with a large penis can satisfy his partner better than one with a smaller one”. Penile size is unimportant for partner satisfaction. “An archer is known by his aim and not by his arrows”.

Is he length of the penis in the flaccid state important?

The length in the flaccid state is immaterial, as it is used for urination only. It is the erect penis that is used for performing the sex act and not the flaccid one.

Is the width of the penis important?

No. The vagina is highly elastic. It can expand from the size of the little finger to that of the baby’s head. The vagina distends according to the width and size of the inserted penis.

Can a small penis lead to conceptive inadequacy?

No.